Tales from the Golden Age
Monday, March 23, 2009 @ 8.40 pm
(12A) | Romania | 2008 | 131’ | Cast | Awards | Subtitles
A collection of five wry and amusing urban myths that circulated under Ceausescu’s paranoid regime, the period he called ‘The Golden Age of the Romanian People’. Full of bleak humour, these stories poke fun at the bizarre lengths people had to go to survive. From the director of 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days, this has a similar blend of the extraordinary just beneath the surface of the everyday. Inevitably, in a country where food is short, finding enough to eat is a recurring theme. One tense tale tells of a family’s attempt to slaughter a pig in their flat without the neighbour’s hearing. Simply told with well-drawn characters these well-judged stories have an easy charm and a telling take on what makes people tick.
Gosodwyd y ffilm hon yn Rwmania, adeg cyfundrefn Ceausescu. Yn llawn hiwmor noeth, mae’r ffilm yn gasgliad o straeon sy’n gwneud sbort ar yr hyn y bydd pobl yn barod i wneud er mwyn goroesi.
“Absurd, hilarious, poignant and curiously affectionate” Wendy Ide, The Times
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